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Regulating aversion : tolerance in the age of identity and empire /

"Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Wendy, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization
  • Tolerance as a discourse of power
  • Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question"
  • Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence
  • Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
  • Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians
  • Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse.